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Thursday, July 13, 2017

A 'La King on top

Publick
Universal Friend Memorial:

Here
is an easy brunch dish made from things in the pantry. Derived from a
1950 cookbook and updated for our tastes.

We
dedicate this to an early American spiritual leader that defies
conventional wisdom and is an important LGBT hero. Be sure to read
the quick article following the recipe.

Ingredients:

½
stick butter

2
Tbs flour

1.5
cups low salt chicken broth

½
cup non-fat half & half

2
cups cooked chicken (from cans)

½
cup left-over peas

½
cup left-over corn

1
egg beaten

1
Tbs lemon juice Optional

Noodle
base:

6
oz noodles cooked

1
Tbs butter

1
tsp salt

3
eggs slightly beaten

1/3
cup non-fat half & half

Directions:

Do
your cutting: if using left-over chicken, cut that up. If using from
cans, drain well.

Heat
up water for noodles & cook according to package.

Preheat
oven to 350
and spray an 8 x 8 baking dish.

In
a 2 cup measuring cup:

Mix
the half&half with chicken stock and stir in an egg until well
blended. Flavor with salt & pepper to taste.

Jemima Wilkinson was born in
a Quaker family living in Rhode Island in the winter of 1752.When she was 24 in 1776
Jemima had a severe fever that almost caused her death. Upon waking
she confidently announced to her surprised family that Jemima
Wilkinson had died and her body was now inhabited by a genderless
“Spirit of Life from God” sent to preach to the world. She changed her name to “the
Publick Universal Friend” or simply “the Friend.” From then on,
the Friend refused to respond to her birth name or even use gendered
pronouns. Stating they was neither male nor female. The new religious
leader fought for gender equality and founded an important religious
community. Wilkinson had declared independence from gender.

Quaker
officials rejected the Friend as a heretic, but went on to preach
throughout Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and
Pennsylvania.

Wilkinson is recognized as
the first American-born woman to found a religious group, but is also
called a “transgender evangelist.” The breakaway Quaker preacher
spoke against slavery and gave medical care to both sides in the
Revolutionary War.

The
Friend blended traditional warnings about sin and redemption with
pacifism, abolitionism, plain dress and peaceful relations with 1st
nationers. Women had no legal rights in the United States, but the
Friend advocated equality of the sexes. The Friend was also a firm
believer in sexual abstinence.

The
first recruits were family members, but the Friend soon attracted a
diverse group of followers, including intellectual and economic
elites as well as the poor and oppressed. Known as the Universal
Friends, they upset some people by proclaiming that the Friend was
“the Messiah Returned” or “Christ in Female Form.” The Friend
did not make such claims directly.

The
Friend founded the Society of Universal Friends in 1783. Members
pooled their money and started a utopian communal settlement in the
wilderness near Seneca Lake in upstate New York in 1788.

As
the first settlers in the region, they cleared the land and became
the first white people to meet and trade with the Native Americans
there. By 1790 the community had grown to a population of 260.

Hostile
observers put the Friend on trial for blasphemy in 1800, but the
court ruled that American courts could not try blasphemy cases due to
the separation of church and state in the U.S. constitution. Thus the
Friend was a pioneer in establishing freedom of speech and freedom of
religion in American law.

The preacher and prophet
known as “the Friend” defies categorization. The Friend has been
labeled a “spiritual transvestite” and is on lists of “famous
asexuals” and “a gender-variance Who’s Who.”

As a gender
nonconformist whose life was devoted to God, the Friend fits the
definition of a queer saint. The androgynous asexual Friend was many
things to many people.

This fascinating person died
almost 200 years ago on July 1, 1819.Find out more in: